Chapter 644: The Sacrificial Net
The Gu tribe's action this time is very big, and the battle that is about to be faced a thousand years late will inevitably affect everyone in the tribe, in order to prevent hurting those who have poor combat ability, the silk bone will arrange it after leaving the witch's house.
Their core battlefield is where the tribe is located, and the Gu tribe is also one of the few tribes that uses their own habitat as a battlefield, and if you want to withdraw all the people who cannot participate in the tribe from the battlefield, you have to withdraw all the people out of the tribe's range.
The plan was for those to leave through the sub-tribe's underground caves and then find a place to hide. The people of the sub-tribe are not strong in combat, but they are still very good at finding a place to hide.
The person who came out of the ground that Silk Gu had seen under his house was from the sub-tribe, and the sub-tribe would not participate in the war, but would help the Gu tribe send people away.
So, in the next two days, it is common to see wounded pregnant women and children with parcels, entering from the underground cave under the silk bone house, and then leaving along the cave, where people from the sub-tribe will guide them.
In the past two days, there have been more fierce beasts nearby, especially those patrolling at night, they can even hear the clear sound of water waves on the other side of the riverbank, and now the giant beast is no longer hidden, and the people of the Gu tribe will not approach the river bank, only guard the edge of the tribe, and hunt those fierce beasts that break into the tribe.
On the third day, it was already quiet in the Gu tribe, there was no noise from children, and no one was running around.
When the sun was high, the witch walked out of the house, and when he landed, he walked towards the fire.
The people from other parts of the tribe also came out of the house and gathered towards the fire.
They also have an important ritual before the hunt begins.
The net is for the people of the Gu tribe. It's a tool, but it's also a faith.
Maybe people from other tribes don't think a net can do anything, but every time before and after the official hunt, the people of the Gu tribe will hold a special ceremony, such as the mobilization meeting before the Yanjiao hunt. After the end of the hunt, there will be a knife washing ceremony, and the Gu tribe also has it.
The more important the action, the more complex the ritual.
For many tribes, hunting is enough as long as there are people, tools, and strength, but the people of the Gu tribe think that it is more than that. There is also one of the most important and necessary procedures for them before the big hunt - the ritual!
If there is no such ceremony. The people of the Gu tribe will feel that no matter how strong you are, no matter how skilled you are in hunting, no matter how sharp your tools are, without a ritual, there will be no satisfactory hunt and will not be able to achieve the purpose of their plan.
That ritual will give them the power of the nets in their hands, and this power will give them a satisfactory result in their hunting. They don't miss their target, they catch enough prey. All the tools will also achieve maximum effect.
And when it comes to rituals, it is natural to mention witches, witches are the hosts of ceremonies, and all important rituals of the tribe are inseparable from witches, and witches are the most critical people in this ceremony, and there is no witch. This ritual would not exist, the hunting nets would not be empowered, and the hunt would end dismal.
It can be said that in the eyes of the Gu tribesmen, hunting is an act of witchcraft. The witch will decide when the hunt will be carried out, how it will be hunted, and so on. The main hunting method of the Gu tribe is net hunting, and witches will play a vital role in net hunting, which is why the status of the Gu tribe is transcendent, and the status of their leader is far less than that of witches. They can do without a leader in every important operation, but they must not do without a witch.
When the witch came to the firepit, the silk bones and the others had already arrived in advance. And in the fire pit, there are hunting nets full of fire ponds!
The mountain-like hunting nets covered the flames of the fire, and did not burn because of the flames in the firepit.
If you look closely, you will find that the hunting nets piled up in the fire pond are different from the hunting nets commonly used by the Gu tribe in the past, because the fierce beast they are about to deal with is much more powerful than the fierce beasts they hunted in the past! Ordinary straw rope nets can't stop the pace of the fierce creature at all, let alone hunt it, so all the nets they use this time are the best nets they can make, this kind of net they will collect raw materials in the right season every year, and then store the hemp fibers, and when they need to use them, they will take out these treasured materials to weave the highest level hunting nets.
"Ready?" Wu looked away from the fire pit and looked at the silk bones and the others in front of him.
"Alright. Silk Bone looked at the people who had gathered, these people were all the participants in this operation, a total of more than 1,300 people, more than half of them would be in charge of peripheral operations, most of them were not very experienced warriors, mostly junior totem warriors, while the other half would stay in the core position, with intermediate and high-level totem warriors in the majority, and experienced people would be in charge of the core position.
"In that case," the witch's face grimaced, "Sacrifice Net!"
Everyone gathered in a long line spontaneously, and it wasn't the first time they had done something like this, so there was no need to say more.
The silk bone, who is in first place on the far left, strides towards the firepit, then stops at the firepit and stretches out his palm.
The witch pulled out a long, yellow leaf, which was thin and brittle, as if a gap would appear when touched.
The witch grabbed the leaf with three fingers and waved it, and the withered yellow blade of grass was like a thin sharp knife, neatly cutting through the palm of the silk bone.
The blood was carried out in a line with the trajectory of the blades of grass, slid down from the hand of the silk bone, and fell into the fire, and the whole process took less than a breath.
The silk bone went to the side, and the second man stepped forward, and stretched out his hand like the silk bone.
Everyone who goes to war will drip their blood into the fire.
Even though there were more than 1,000 people here, it didn't take too long, and when the last person was over, it only took a little more than half an hour.
When everyone present was done, the witch moved his finger and bulleted the leaf into the fire, sticking it into the hunting net that had been piled up into the hill.
What is the symbolism of the net?
Take!
Subjugate!
As the ritual continued, this thought seemed to have spread along with the net.
Inside and around the Gu tribe, a scorching and restless aura began to flow, the birds that used to fly here in the past had long since left, and the flying insects hidden behind the leaves had spread their wings and hurriedly flew away.
Another reason why the Gu tribesmen refused to intervene was because if the net was opened, the Yanjiao people would not be able to make a move!
In the Yan River, the calm waves of water rolled, as if something was stirring vigorously below, about to break the water and rush out. (To be continued.) )
PS: Last night, I was going to sleep and code again, but I overslept groggily and didn't wake up until the next day......